I might have misunderstood the comment chain here, but I was responding to this: "There's only evidence if you assume that this is a purely material world". I

I might have misunderstood the comment chain here, but I was responding to this: "There's only evidence if you assume that this is a purely material world". I wouldn't call that an assumption, that's the evidence based worldview at the moment. Any arguments that don't assume that have an additional burden of proof placed on them.